Sculpture

Outdoor festivals return to Hampton Roads with a vengeance when autumn leaves start to fall. You'll find a celebration for most every inclination. Seafood, peanuts, sophisticated sculpture, homey crafts, Egyptian culture, indie music, gospel — all that and more will be showcased at events this season. The festival circuit heats up as the temperatures drop. Just ask Michelle Sharp of Hampton. Her business That's The Spirit Decals, sells vinyl decorations and stickers for your automobile at outdoor events in the region. Chances are, you'll find her in a booth at Bay Days next weekend hawking her wares. "I love sitting out there and meeting people. It's...

Norfolk Botanical Garden opens its Butterfly House Friday, June 14, according to a news release. It will be open for summer visitors until Sept. 21, when there will be a butterfly release the public can attend.
The house, part of the 2.5-acre Bristow...

With the NCAA poised to sanction Penn State on Monday for its unconscionable response to former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky’s pedophilia, ACC commissioner John Swofford discussed the tragedy Sunday at the conference’s preseason football media...

Thousands of athletes sport scars from Dr. Frank McCue’s renowned surgical handiwork. Far more indelible are their memories of Doc McCue the gentleman, cowboy and friend.“He and his wife, Miss Nancy, they treated me like a son. I never forgot that,”...

Norfolk Botanical Garden is pleased to announced their nomination to the 2011 Virginia’s Top 10 Endangered Artifacts program, a collection of 11 Moses Ezekiel statues, received the “People’s Choice Award” and given an honorable mention for receiving the...

Most people furnish their homes with comfort and utility in mind and give only a passing nod to matters of style and design.
Though some may pay close attention to color, material and shape, they seldom press much beyond these elementary concerns —...

You've seen "Antiques Roadshow" on public television … now welcome to "Antiques Homeshow," where this columnist tries to persuade himself that the dust-covered junk cluttering his house has some actual value!Item No. 1: A vintage...

In any estimation of Hampton Roads' best and most influential artists, you have to have Marlene Jack.
Since her bold transformation of an old power plant into a vibrant ceramics studio 35 years ago, the College of William and Mary professor has...

No matter how many times you walk around one of Richard Hunt's sculptures, chances are you'll find yourself wanting to go back and take another look.
Carried along by his rhythmic, constantly shifting passages of bronze or stainless steel, you probably...

Sir Anthony Caro, the renowned British sculptor whose abstract creations have been hugely influential, has died. The 89-year-old artist suffered a heart attack and died on Wednesday, said the Tate Museum in London.
Caro is recognized widely for helping...

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts will officially open its doors Thursday evening with a black-tie gala co-hosted by Robert Redford, Brad Pitt and Jamie Tisch, as well as its namesake, who gave $25 million to build what is...

Oh, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Florida resorts -- what with decorations including twinkling lights, towering trees, gingerbread houses, garlands and poinsettias, as well as holiday themed entertainment including an icy attraction,...

In “Applause,” her chart-topping dance single released in August, Lady Gaga left fans a cryptic message singing: “One second I’m a Koons/then suddenly the Koons is me.”
The lyric’s import became clear Monday when the transgressive chanteuse unveiled...

The cast of "Modern Family" was jubilant and seemingly everywhere at HBO's annual post-Emmy bash at the Pacific Design Center on Sunday night.
The ABC sitcom was riding high thanks to its fourth consecutive Emmy win for best comedy, and star Ty...

Students at a Michigan university have learned one thing this semester: how to “ride it like Miley.”
Miley Cyrus’ recently released “Wrecking Ball” music video prompted a rash of copycat photos and Vine videos by students at Grand Valley State University...

"I am Cyrus, king of the universe, the great king, the powerful king, king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four quarters of the world...."
So says the wedge-shaped cuneiform script on the little Cyrus Cylinder, one of the...

In the long and fruitful afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe, the city of Boston is closer to celebrating the author as one of its own.
The Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston is hoping to install a bronze statue of Poe near Boylston and Charles Streets. In...

Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa was interned during World War II, first at the Santa Anita racetrack in Arcadia, where she lived in a horse stall that reeked of manure, and then at a relocation center in Arkansas, where 8,000 detainees were surrounded...